Police Annex building expansion could aid municipal court

3:04 AM,
Feb. 22, 2013

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Written by

Brian Gadd
Staff Writer

Zanesville Municipal Court officials hope to alleviate some overcrowding issues when it comes to court records by adding another records room onto the Police Annex building across the street from the Public Safety Center.

Because of years of inaction, thousands of records need to be sorted, and the amount of space available for documents the court is required to keep for up to 50 years quickly is filling up every nook and cranny of filing cabinets and storage rooms.

"There's just nowhere to put anything. We have our computer paper, our supplies and civil cases back to 1997 in one small room," ...